Re: [yocto] Bitbake fetch private Github repository release archive

Gyorgy Sarvari <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.yoctoproject.lists.yocto
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 9/24/25 11:12, Katu Txakur via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to fetch a release from a private repository using a
> Personal Access Token (PAT).
> I know the permissions and repository are correct because I can use
> this bash script and it
> works: https://gist.github.com/maxim/6e15aa45ba010ab030c4?permalink_comment_id=2990095#gistcomment-2990095
> I can clone the repository with ssh keys but I need to use http for
> the release zip file.
> I have
> tried https://docs.yoctoproject.org/ref-manual/classes.html#github-releases
> <https://docs.yoctoproject.org/ref-manual/classes.html#github-releases> but
> I don't know where to specify the token.
>

Based on the PAT documentation I found it supposed to be used as part of
the auth header, however the http/wget fetcher in Bitbake only supports
Basic authentication currently, using the .netrc file. I'm afraid there
is no out of the box solution currently for using PAT.
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